...when you are trying to make oatmeal cookies from scratch, there is a difference between baking powder and baking soda.

I also had exactly this experience in 7th grade. My Mom was too busy and I wanted oatmeal cookies. So I tried to make them myself. I couldn't find the baking powder or else it had been used up, so I tried using baking soda.

The cookies looked great when they came out of the oven. I plopped them into a lunch bag and took them to the school yard. I had only tried one of them, which had a disagreeable strong alkaline taste.

Another boy in my class came along and wanted some cookies. I opened the bag for him and he reached in. He took one small bite and threw the cookie across the play ground as far as he could throw it.

Thanks for sharing that Allen! My cookies didn't even come out that well. They were so hard you could break them... well, actually you could. We took them out back, lined them up on the sidewalk and smashed them with a hammer!!

...when you have to wear a dress during a school play, you'd better watch what you wear under the dress, especially during the performance in front of the entire student body.

talking about plays, i had to be a slave, and had to pretend to fall over, so i found that this only works if you are a bad actor, because otherwise i kind member of the audience will come and pick you up- very embarassing

Contrary to what adults think, certain things in the house are actually invisible: Mom's plants dog barf in the living room vacuum cleaner snow shovel lawnmower toilet bowl brush

Your mother is unlikely to be appreciative when you return to her nice deck of fancy cards the various cards you swiped to clip to the wheels of your bike earlier in the day to make that cool snapping sound in the spokes as you pedal along.

_________________________Nobody living can ever stop meAs I go walking my freedom highway.Nobody living can make me turn back:This land was made for you and me.(Woody Guthrie)

Red Rider wagons without wheels will not fly if you push them off the top of barn (even though they look like they will glide smoothly to the ground). Thanks kitty, for being the test pilot, and I'm glad you were ok.

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